Delete After Reading vs Word Laces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Delete After Reading
Engage in an interactive adventure that blends reading with puzzle-solving. Uncover a secret mission to retrieve a stolen videogame and alter destiny, all while ensuring your actions remain undetected.
- Interactive reading and story gameplay
- Escape room style puzzles
- Unique storytelling format
- Adventure mission
- Stealth and puzzle mechanics
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A book you can play, or a game you can read, Delete After Reading is a crafted combination of an adventure story and puzzle games about cheating your destiny. An original storytelling format for armchair detectives and escape room aficionados of all ages. On the worst day of your life, you find a strange device with a file named “Delete After Reading”. It’s a classified document. Nina, Cinco, and Tomate, a clandestine group of kids (they happen to be dead, but they’ve never let that small detail interfere with their daily, uh, lives) want you to join them on a secret mission to repair Destiny’s latest injustice: the despised millionaire Martin Skrilhex has stolen the only existing copy of the highly coveted videogame “The Curse of Penguin Island” so only he can play it. Together you’ll have to sneak into the magnate’s mansion and steal back the videogame, so kids around the world can play it. But this mission will only be successful if Destiny does not find out that you are changing his plans, so never ever forget to delete the file after reading it. Main features: - Text is the gameplay, a cool and innovative mix of interactive reading, story, and escape room puzzles. - An immersive storytelling format that broadens the view of what games (and books) could be. - A thrilling adventure story for the whole family.
Word Laces
This word puzzle game challenges you to find words associated with images and connect them. Enjoy daily puzzles and events, with over 1000 levels to solve and a shoe collection to expand. Play the first 100 levels for free.
- Image-based word association puzzles
- Swipe to lace words
- Over 1000 puzzles
- Unlockable shoe collection
- Daily topical puzzles and events
- Former Apple Arcade title
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Free with no ads. Please enjoy the first 100 levels of this game for free, with the option of buying the full game with a one-time purchase. Word Laces is a word puzzle game about associations, connotations, and collecting shoes. Every picture tells a story. Find the meaning and solve the puzzle. Just swipe to lace up words, it’s simple and satisfying! Each level presents you with an image and a set of jumbled letters. Your task is to find words associated with the image and “lace” the words together. Loop, link, and weave your way through over 1000 puzzles. Unlock new themes and expand your shoe collection. How many can you collect? The daily puzzle for Word Laces features topical content from around the world. Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Ramadan, Halloween or Hanukkah, every day is worth celebrating. Enjoy this former Apple Arcade game, now on the App Store
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Word Laces at 4.7 against Delete After Reading's 4.2. Delete After Reading's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Delete After Reading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Word Laces sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Word Laces holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 74 and 201 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Delete After Reading's written reviews are positive against 43% of Word Laces's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Delete After Reading ships an update every 4 weeks, Word Laces every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Delete After Reading | Word Laces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (74 ratings) | 4.7 (201 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 74 | 201 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 393 MB | 518 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrones y Escondites | Minimega |
Customer experience
Delete After Reading
Word Laces
Bugs and requests
Delete After Reading
Reported bugs
6 issues- Cannot scroll on MacBook Pro
- Symbols on TV are incorrect
- Cannot buy the game on Mac
- Chapter 5 is terrible on Mac
- TV did not show channels 7-9 until reloading app
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- Audio did not play after reloading
Requested features
8 requests- Add a save/continue feature
- Make all levels free or reduce price
- Add iCloud syncing
- Add built-in video walkthroughs
- Improve scrolling on iOS
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- Adjust controls for Mac users
- Fix text spacing issues
- Provide clearer guides for puzzles
Word Laces
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Delete After Reading
- Full Game$4.99
Word Laces
- Unlock Full Game$5.99
